Natalie's Blog

The Project For the past two weeks I have been working with Adobe illustrator to create graphics. I did a blueprint style, snazzy line page and chubby people. I liked doing the chubby people the most, but didn't enjoy the lines.  I have definitively decided that Adobe Illustrator is the best Blue Print Snazzy Lines Chubbies

About. This website is all about me! It starts from my past and goes all the way to my future. I created my layout on Photoshop and then completed the website on Dreamweaver. For my design I used the idea of a film reel. I chose it because I enjoy photography and I think film is hella cool. Process. The first step of this process required me to go onto Adobe Photoshop to create my layout and design. We did this so we could get an idea for the layout and to create our rollover images. I am not experienced with photoshop, so I learned a lot. I learned about the ruler and slicing to create separate images. It was a challenge getting my animations for rollovers saved correctly and working. I have a new disliking towards Photoshop, I prefer Illustrator. While in Dreamweaver it was a challenge getting my rollovers to work properly and getting the layout to look good. The rollovers took a while to install because I was struggling to save them properly so when you hovered over ...

My First Website For my final semester project I had to create a website about a topic I am interested in. Originally I wanted my website to be about potatoes because potatoes are the best thing ever. Have  you seen how many different types of food you can make with them? Not to mention it helped the 18th century society from starving all the time. Unfortunately someone took my idea and got Mr. Olson to approve before I did. My next choice was nature photography. I like photography as a whole, but I am more interested in nature, people are too much stress. By doing nature photography it made it easier for me because we had to use free or uncopyrighted photos, but I could use my own photos. While I was researching tips about nature photography I learned some new information, but also old. I knew about the rule of thirds, lighting tips, and taking pictures in the rain. I was not aware of some of the tricks, but I had already known to do it. I did learn that overcast helped inc...

Looking Back... At the beginning of the year I was terrified because I did not know who everyone was and I thought I was going to be a loner. I became friends with Sydney and Mallory which helped. We have been doing convergence journalism, in my opinion, it sucks. I think entertainment will be better.  The projects we have done are: basic procedure, an audio story, an ONW now feature story, a report on the school blood drive, and out ONW Now segment. The key invent of this semester was Allam getting fired. It really messed up the flow of the class because the sub knew nothing, I personally did not enjoy her company, and everyone was confused about what to do. The other key event was producing the ONW Now show. It was kind of stressful having to plan things out and make sure everything got finished. I did enjoy my group, we worked smoothly. The class did not have enough computers for everyone so someone had to use the teacher's, but a student left the class so a free compute...

For this project we went to the blood drive at Olathe Northwest on Friday 13th, November. We were taking a point of view from a donor, nurse, or STUCO member. I chose to take the point of view from a donor. I wrote questions as a guide to ask the donors then I went to the Flex Theater where the blood drive was taking place. I captured b-roll along with interviews at the same time. The next day I uploaded the video to the computer and edited it on Final Cut Pro. My video is 1 minute long to fit the time space. Next time I would bring a microphone to capture the audio better of the interviews and plan my shots better so I wouldn't be scrambled. I was in a rush trying to get all the b-roll and interviews I needed. 

This is a vlog type of video of a man and and woman going to a blood drive at a church. He filmed him and the woman through the whole process of getting their blood drawn. They went to the Red Cross Blood Drive that was at Highland Baptist Church. This video showed how the process worked of getting your blood drawn, but it was not a clear story. The man was telling the story. The video was very shaky, did not have voice overs, had music in the background, and was shot at poor angles. He did do a good job at showing each step and it was in focus, that is all I would apply. The creator showed the emotions, but was shaky and had a stupid camera lens. It distorted the view. There was background music the whole time and it switched between two music choices in the middle. In the beginning of the video the music was solemn, but in the second half of the video it was upbeat. It was a poor tasted in music and had no relevance to the whole video. He should have not had background music in t...